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Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc3
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From: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 02:07:50 -0500

> >- In http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5989, Sanjoy 
> >Mahajan has  another regression, but he's off collecting more info.
> 
> We're talking here about a system from 1999 where Windows 98
> refuses to run in ACPI mode and instead runs in APM mode.

If it worked before a change which was installed, it's a regression
regardless of whether another OS tries to use ACPI on that system or
not.  I don't understand how one can use that fact to label this as
not a regression from Linux's perspective.
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